Padma and Parvati (Meanings are HERE)

[ihatethis99in]

Hi! I'm a lurker who is just delurking from India.

"Padma" means "Lotus". 
http://www.indiaexpress.com/specials/babynames/girl-p.html

"Parvati" is an Indian female name, possibly derived from the 
word, "Parvat", which means Mountain.

Keith


--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Jennifer Boggess Ramon <boggles at e...> wrote:
> At 9:52 PM +0000 9/11/02, pk_dawson wrote:
> >
> >Or
> >maybe Padma and Parvati are just two interesting Indian names that
> >JKR liked? Any ideas?
> 
> I teach at a school that has a fairly large Indian and Pakistani 
> population, and Padma is a fairly common girl's name there.  
Parvati 
> was probably chosen because it went with it, as the names are 
> mythologically related.
> 
> That doesn't, of course, mean that Rowling _hasn't_ read Rushdie's 
> book - just that it probably wasn't the primary inspiration . . .
> 
> -- 
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